Sentences with phrase «public interest litigants in»
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Jeff Cronin, the director of communications for the Center for Science in the Public Interest and a litigant in the case, tells WTOP that this settlement is good news for consumers.
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Tags: Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Popular Culture, The Honorable Wayne Morris Creech, Visitation Posted in Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Visitation 6 Comments»
Moreover, one could imagine different judges concluding (1) that court fees are never permissible or (2) that exemptions are not always necessary or (3) that this particular fees regime was reasonable because it allowed for exemptions for impoverished litigants; indeed, the regime aimed to strike a delicate balance between the interests of individual litigants and the public interest in effective, efficient access to justice (see Rothstein J.'s dissent, paras. 103 - 112).
Ways in which individuals can fight for rights, are by contributing towards interventions on cases and initiating litigation as a public interest litigant on: Designated Countries of Origin, The Designated Foreign National Regime, for the Refugee Protection and Refugee Appeal, and Humanitarian and Compassionate Consideration and Pre-Removal Risk.
As noted by the Ontario Court of Appeal in M.E.H. v. Williams (2012 ONCA 35), purely personal interests can not justify non-publication or sealing orders: ``... the personal concerns of a litigant, including concerns about the very real emotional distress and embarrassment that can be occasioned to litigants when justice is done in public, will not, standing alone, satisfy the necessity branch of the test».
Unlike other pre-emptive costs orders (such as costs capping orders), their aim is not solely to control extravagant expenditure; instead, their aim is to protect litigants who reasonably bring public law proceedings in the public interest from the liability of an adverse costs order in the event that they lose.
Privacy interests are also of concern to many individual litigants who would not want personal details of their life produced in discovery to be part of the public record.
«Public interest litigation which has now come to occupy an important field in the administration of law should not be «publicity interest litigation» or «private interest litigation» or «politics interest litigation»... The courts of justice should not be allowed to be polluted by unscrupulous litigants by resorting to the extraordinary jurisdiction.»
Tags: Child Custody, Guardian ad litem, Jurisprudence Posted in Child Custody, Guardians Ad Litem, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific 1 Comment»
In one respect, though, Rule 5 represents a significant development which is of major interest to judges, attorneys, court administrators, Alternative Dispute Resolution (hereinafter «ADR») providers, litigants, and particularly the general public.
Tags: Child Support, F.P. Segars - Andrews, Jurisprudence, Paternity, Popular Culture, Visitation Posted in Child Support, Contempt / Enforcement of Orders, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity, Visitation 4 Comments»
Tags: Jurisprudence, Litigation Strategy, Marital Litigation in South Carolina, Roy T. Stuckey, Sibling Visitation, Visitation Posted in Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Visitation 4 Comments»
Tags: Paternity, Paternity Fraud Posted in Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity 4 Comments»
«It is too easy for litigants to forget that their actions, focused as they are on advancing their own interests, are seen by the public through the lens of confidence in the administration of justice.
Tags: Divorce Posted in Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific 3 Comments»
Tags: Attorney - Client Relations, Divorce Posted in Attorney - Client Relations, Divorce and Marriage, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to General Public 7 Comments»
It recognized that public interest litigants are crucial to realizing the Charter's democratic potential because they can address the systemic impacts of the law on the most vulnerable people in a way that isn't possible in individual litigation.
Tags: Jurisprudence, Paternity, South Carolina Supreme Court Posted in Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific, Visitation 5 Comments»
Even though Alphamix concerned a domestic arbitral award, the attitude of the Judge in scrutinizing the arguments against the enforcement of an award when a litigant has gone through all the proper court procedures, even public interest ones, is most welcome and sends a strong signal to public bodies which choose to have their commercial disputes resolved by way of arbitration, that they should take arbitration proceedings and arbitral awards made against them seriously.
PBSC chapters assist public interest organizations, community groups, government agencies, legal clinics, lawyers and law firms working pro bono, and unrepresented litigants in legal matters in and out of Court.
Tags: Benjamin Stevens, Child Abuse and Neglect, Department of Social Services, South Carolina Court of Appeals Posted in Department of Social Services / Child Abuse and Neglect, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions 3 Comments»
Tags: Contempt Enforcement Rule to Show Cause, Family Court Procedure, Jurisprudence Posted in Contempt / Enforcement of Orders, Family Court Procedure, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific 6 Comments»
Tags: Child Abuse and Neglect, Department of Social Services, Guardian ad litem, Jurisprudence Posted in Department of Social Services / Child Abuse and Neglect, Guardians Ad Litem, Mediation / Alternative Dispute Resolution, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific No Comments»
Tags: Equal Protection, Protection from Domestic Abuse, Same - Sex Couples, South Carolina Supreme Court Posted in Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Protection from Domestic Abuse, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific No Comments»
Current CAJT projects include the law school's Public Interest Certificate program; A2J Author, a collaboration with the Center for Computer - Assisted Legal Instruction to build new computer interfaces for self - represented litigants; and the Self - Help Web Center at the Cook County Courthouse in the Daley Center, where law student volunteers help self - represented litigants to use technology tools developed at CAJT.
Tags: Child Custody Modification, Litigation Strategy, Relocation Posted in Child Custody, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific 4 Comments»
Those «others» include, by the way, a type of outfit that is not usually thought of as a «public interest litigant,» but which in a very real sense is exactly that: the federal Department of Justice and its provincial counterparts (which I will refer to as the DOJs).
The reason I am writing about this is that while ordinary litigants, who go to court to assert or defend their own legal rights and interests, are perfectly entitled not to care about what the public knows about their cases, it seems to me that public interest litigants, who ostensibly pursue matters not on their own behalf but on that of the public at large or at least of some section of the public, are, in my view, in a different position.
From last year's judgment of Associate Chief Justice Rooke in Meads v. Meads, 2012 ABQB 571, to the recent occupation of a Calgary apartment by a Freeman - of - the - land who claimed it as an «embassy», OPCA litigants have disrupted the functioning of legal system while attracting public attention and interest.
(b) the salutary effects of the order, including the effects on the right of civil litigants to a fair trial, outweigh its deleterious effects, including the effects on the right to free expression which includes the public interest in open and accessible court proceedings (the «proportionality» branch).